Congrats for wisconsin, maybe the grinch can reach into his stocking and find some scraps of food for the 14% of his states population so poor they need the foodstamps his little sect of the republican party are taking away through this publicity stunt._________________

“Many customers have had difficulty finding answers to their questions due to the furloughed federal employees and have alternatively contacted state agencies for assistance,” she wrote.

Yeah, that's what happens when you shut down the government... you can't get information from federal agencies where employees aren't going to work.

I find it interesting that states are finding ways to open parks - tourist attractions that make money (at least in the case of Utah) - and in Utah they're hoping to get paid back for whatever they spend (up to 10 days worth)... any chance of them funding WIC out of state funds? I know starving infants don't bring in money to the state like parks do, so maybe they're not important.

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Dogen wrote:

Mindslicer's link wrote:

“Many customers have had difficulty finding answers to their questions due to the furloughed federal employees and have alternatively contacted state agencies for assistance,” she wrote.

Yeah, that's what happens when you shut down the government... you can't get information from federal agencies where employees aren't going to work.

I find it interesting that states are finding ways to open parks - tourist attractions that make money (at least in the case of Utah) - and in Utah they're hoping to get paid back for whatever they spend (up to 10 days worth)... any chance of them funding WIC out of state funds? I know starving infants don't bring in money to the state like parks do, so maybe they're not important.

“Many customers have had difficulty finding answers to their questions due to the furloughed federal employees and have alternatively contacted state agencies for assistance,” she wrote.

Yeah, that's what happens when you shut down the government... you can't get information from federal agencies where employees aren't going to work.

I find it interesting that states are finding ways to open parks - tourist attractions that make money (at least in the case of Utah) - and in Utah they're hoping to get paid back for whatever they spend (up to 10 days worth)... any chance of them funding WIC out of state funds? I know starving infants don't bring in money to the state like parks do, so maybe they're not important.

The insurgents blamed “selfish and empty-minded American leaders” and claimed they were guilty of taking U.S. citizens' money "earned with great difficulty" and then “lavishly spending the same money in shedding the blood of the innocent and oppressed people.”

So what they're saying is, they're sore about not being able to do that themselves anymore?

The November deadline is for more than just Wisconsin, I think. When the government shut down, WIC had some money left over from last year, and some states had WIC money left over as well -- they rationed it out, and for most of the states it'll last 'til more or less the end of October.*

North Carolina, though, was just obnoxious:
WIC: "How much money do you need to run WIC?"
N.C.: "ONE MILLION DOLLARS!" (I don't remember the actual amount and have no sense of scale...)
WIC: "But you didn't even spend close to that amount over the past year..."
N.C.: "ONE MILLION DOLLARS!"
WIC: "Well, will you use any of your state's money for that?"
N.C.: "NOPE! ONE MILLION DOLLARS!"
WIC: "Look we can give you a few thousand."
N.C.: "LOOK AT ALL THE POOR PEOPLE OBAMA'S STUBBORN-NESS IS STARVING!!"

* Also, while school lunch already had the October money given out, but come November there's no guarantee that the shutdown will be over in time to pay them at the end of the month, so, yeah. Schools will have to gamble on whether they can pay for school lunch. If this doesn't end soon, November's gonna suck...

We already knew she was brave so perhaps this shouldn't come as a surprise:Malala Yousafzai tells Obama drones are 'fueling terrorism'
Still cred for saying it to his face though._________________A cigarette is the perfect type of a perfect pleasure. It is exquisite, and it leaves one unsatisfied. What more can one want? ~Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray